You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The first Pretzer family to immigrate to America was that of Karl Pretzer of Löcknitz (1810-1899) and his wife Esther (d. 1899). They left Hamburg on the ship "Auguste and Anges" on April 1, 1854 for New York. They first lived on farms in Macomb Co., Michigan until ca. 1880, when most of the family left Clinton Twp. and moved to Richland Twp., Saginaw Co., Michigan. The earliest known ancestor, Johann Heinrich Pretzer (ca. 1695-1776), died in Blumenthal, Pommern. His first wife was Anna Catherina Lofer (or Leter) (1705-1755). He married (2) 1756 Maria Barbara Junge (widow Hennen) (1705-1761). Family members live in Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Minnesota, Dakotas and elsewhere.
David Hopkins was born in about 1696 in England. He emigrated and settled in New Jersey. He married Bethiah and they had seven children. He died in 1773. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma.
Martin and Catherine Dorschheimer emigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1754. They settled in Chestnuthill Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Their son, Emanuel (Manuel), was born in Pennsylvania ca. 1755. He married Christina Shupp, born in Chestnuthill Township in 1759, daughter of John Heinrich Schupp and Maria Elizabetha Schuch, in 1775. He later died in 1798 in Effort, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Ohio, and elsewhere.
Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.